During April I took my wife and 13-year-old daughter to see the Iuka battle site (would be neat to buy/raze the motel and do some archaeo on the hillside!!).

I also took them to see the mass burial of Confederate soldiers (approximately 263 men) in the Shady Grove Cemetery there.

I am attempting to compile a complete listing of all the men buried in this burial trench.

Here are the Confederate units at Iuka (as per Peter Cozzens, The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8078-2320-1):

* 16th Arkansas
* 2nd Missouri
* 3rd Missouri
* 1st Missouri Dismounted Cavalry
* Wade's (Missouri) Battery
* 14th Arkansas
* 17th Arkansas
* 3rd Louisiana
* 40th Mississippi
* 1st Texas Legion
* 3rd Texas Dismounted Cavalry
* Dawson's St. Louis Battery
* Clark Missouri Battery
* 43rd Mississippi
* 7th Mississippi Battalion
* 4th Missouri
* 6th Missouri
* 3rd Missouri Dismounted Cavalry
* Guibor's (Missouri) Battery
* Landis's (Missouri) Battery
* 37th Alabama
* 36th Mississippi
* 37th Mississippi
* 38th Mississippi
* 2nd Arkansas Cavarly
* 2nd Missouri Cavalry
* Adam's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
* 4th Mississippi Cavalry
* 1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers

Am guessing it would take a scouring of all the CSA units that fought at Iuka and systematically noting the names/units of each death and mortal wounding. This would at least get us in the ball park perhaps.....

I have already received info re the 14th Arkansas Infantry, 17th Arkansas Infantry, 3rd Louisiana Infantry (THANKS Bryan!!!), and 37th Alabama Infantry (THANKS Chip!!!).

Any/all additional help, suggestions, etc. is VERY greatly appreciated...!!!!!!

The goal is to perhaps someday place a marker with the names of all CSA men likely buried in the mass burial trench there at Shady Grove Cemetery, Iuka, Mississippi.

thanks,

Kenneth Byrd
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p.s. - the Corinth Interpret. Center is FANTASTIC....!!!!!!!!!!!